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AI-generated imagery feels inescapable. It’s in the video games you play, in the movies you watch, and has flooded social media platforms. It’s even been used to promote the physical hardware that real, human artists use to create digital paintings and illustrations, to the

• Celebrities who kick off larger campaigns are key to Super Bowl ad success, Uber's CEO said.
• Uber's football game ad this year features "Friends" stars Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer.
• It's using the spot to launch a broader campaign that will last several months, its CEO said.

Big stars and

Dune: Part Two is finally just a few weeks away from hitting theaters, and a new sneak peek lifts the lid on one of the sequel’s most eagerly awaited scenes: Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) riding a sandworm on Arrakis.

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Even NASA is not immune to layoffs. The agency says it's cutting around 530 employees from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California amid budget uncertainty. That's eight percent of the facility's workforce. JPL is laying off about 40 contractors too, just weeks after imposing a hiring freeze and canning 100 other contractors. Workers are being informed of their fates today.

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• Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks stressed the importance of "first chances" in boosting societal outcomes. 
• "There is no economic growth without us investing in humans," Alsobrooks told BI in an interview.
• I

X hit the number one slot among free apps on Apple’s App Store Wednesday, just as another celebrity image scandal was going viral on its platform.

The hashtag “drakevideo” was trending as of Wednesday in the US, after a video that users speculated to be the rapper Drake half nude and engaged in a sexual act spread across the service.

The incident

A driverless Waymo vehicle struck a cyclist in San Francisco, causing minor injuries. It was the latest incident in the city at a time when tensions around autonomous vehicles are particularly high after a driverless Cruise vehicle injured a pedestrian.

The incident, which was first reported by Reuters, occurred at 3:02PM on

• Microsoft posted its Super Bowl ad for Copilot, its AI assistant, with no mention of the new Bing. 
• It's a sign that Microsoft is shifting its AI priorities towards its ChatGPT rival. 
• Despite low usage, Microsoft doesn't see its AI search tool as a failure, an exec told The Verge. 

Microsoft's appears to be focusing its

• Lyft says it will start guaranteeing drivers earn 70% of their riders' payments each week.
• The company also said it would provide drivers more insight into how their pay is calculated.
• Many ride-hailing drivers have complained about declining pay and a

The new sports streaming service from broadcast behemoths ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox could cost between $45 and $50, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke withCNBC.

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The Biden administration recently announced that it would be requiring large cryptocurrency mining operations to report electricity usage, via a press release from The Energy Information Administration. This follows concerns that the industry could pose a threat to the nation’s electricity grids and hasten the impacts of climate change.

To that end, the EIA has targeted 137 “identified commercial